com.saxonica.fsa
Class Edge

java.lang.Object
  com.saxonica.fsa.Edge

public class Edge
extends Object

Internal class to represent the data associated with a transition: the element that triggers the transition, and the new state that results from the transition.

Constructor Summary

Edge()

Method Summary

AutomatonState	getTargetState() Get the state resulting from this transition
Term	getTerm() Get the element or wildcard particle causing this transition
String	matches(Edge de, SchemaCompiler compiler) Test whether edges in two different finite state machines match each other.
void	serialize(SchemaModelSerializer serializer) Serialize this Edge as part of the serialization of a schema component model
void	setTargetState(AutomatonState targetState) Set the state resulting from this transition
void	setTerm(Term term) Set the element or wildcard particle causing this transition

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Edge

public Edge()

Method Detail

setTargetState

public void setTargetState(AutomatonState targetState)

Set the state resulting from this transition

Parameters:

targetState - the state at the end of this edge

getTargetState

public AutomatonState getTargetState()

Get the state resulting from this transition

Returns:

the state at the end of this edge

setTerm

public void setTerm(Term term)

Set the element or wildcard particle causing this transition

Parameters:

term - the term that causes this transition

getTerm

public Term getTerm()

Get the element or wildcard particle causing this transition

Returns:

the term that causes this transition

matches

public String matches(Edge de,
                      SchemaCompiler compiler)

Test whether edges in two different finite state machines match each other. This is called while establishing whether one type subsumes another.

From Thompson & Tobin 2003: an edge BE matches another edge DE iff one of the following three conditions holds: (1) they are labelled as element declarations with the same expanded name; (2) BE is labelled with a wildcard and DE is labelled with an element declaration in a namespace allowed by the wildcard; (3) BE and DE are both wildcards and DE's label is an intensional subset of BE's. In case (3) we add the rule, not in Thompson and Tobin, that the processContents of DE must be at least as strong as the processContents of BE.

It is also necessary that the types of B and D are compatible, and that their nillability is compatible, and that their value constraints are compatible, and that the disallowed substitutions of D is a superset of those of B.

Parameters:

de - the edge in a finite state machine representing a derived type, and which corresponds to this edge in the finite state machine for the base type

compiler - user for error reporting

Returns:

null if the edges match, or a string explaining the reason for the non-match if not.

serialize

public void serialize(SchemaModelSerializer serializer)
               throws XPathException

Serialize this Edge as part of the serialization of a schema component model

Parameters:

serializer -

Throws:

XPathException